The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-06

week, as advertised, says the Equator,
! will cost the pineapple growers fully $1,000
| in.loss Of fruit that had been picked and
/ brought there for shipment.
+! +. 4. johnson has been convicted Of muir
/ der in the second degree at Barlow and
sentenced to the penitentiary for life. he
| killed John c. Newcastle. Florence New
castle viii be tried at the next term Of court
as an accomphce of johnson.
o. DEG. .Bertola. who has made the or
! ange industry In all its various phases
| study for number of years, is contemplate
! ing the establishment OF factory for the
compromising of a new fertilizer at Enter
prise, giving employment to several men.
! On Wednesday next, June s, a grand
/ Sunday school excursion will go from
Seville to PsiatSa and return. On arrival
| of train at Palatka the excurSiOnists viii be
| joined by the Palatka Methodist Sunday
school and a grand union picnic will be
| given.
The Lake City local market is well sup
piled with cucumbers, cabbage, turnips,
| squashes. etc, of very fine quality. Toma-
| toes are beginning to appear, and the juicy
watermelon will shortly divide the honors
with the opportune blackberry in the estl-
| nation of the brother in black.
Last Saturday the steamer Margaret
! brought up !, $50 crates of tomatoes for ship
ment North over the South Florida railroad
| from the Manatee and on the same day the
! Gov Stafford carried $50 crates TO Cedar
| Keys for shipment North over the Florida
Railroad and Navigation Company from the
same place,
A meeting will be held at the Armory
building in Orlando Wednesday next at B
| o'clock D. M, to consider the necessary steps
70 +a1ra
creditable exhibit at the Sub-Tropical Ex
position at Jacksonville next winter. w.
| T. Forbes, of Jacksonville, will be present
and address the citizens.
1t is said there is fine dry dock at Pensa-
cola which the United States government is
anxious to dispose of 1t is about four years
old, made of iron. is in good condition and
cost about $40O, 900. Some enterprising syn
dicate would DO well to purchase and remove
; it to Fernandina, says the Mirror. 1t can
! doubtless be had at a bargain
A negro was beaten numerically in Dade
City last week, by few boys. The negro
had stolen something, and had been beaten
and made to leave. He returned and be-
haved himself, but on Saturday night he
was again taken by this mob and horse
| whipped. Is there not some law to stop
thisl The citizens are tired of such methods
Tampa is port of entry; but being made
| so late in the session there was no provision
| made Tor a collector, and while being a
port, it will have to remain in the Key West
district until a provision is made by Con
gress for making it a separate district. In
the meanwhile, irnportations can be made
direct to Tampa by complying with the
| laws.
The Hard Hitters," of Lake City, de-
feated the ''Suwannees, of Live Oak, by o
score Of % to IA on their own ground on
| Wednesday last. The Lake City club re-
turned much pleased with the reception
given them by the Live Oak knights of the
bat, to whom they desire to make an appro-
pirate tender Of thanks. The contest will
probably be renewed on Lake City ground
shortly
Friday morning Judgt Mitchell, Of Tampa,
sent negro in his bedroom on an GRAND
| Mrs. Mitchels watch was lying on the
bureau and the negro quietly borrowed it,
forgetting, however, to say anything about
it TO the Judge. Soon after the man had left
the watch was missed and Judge Mitch ell
got out warrant and had him arrested. He
refused to say anything about it, and was
put in the county Jail The other prisoners
in the Jail were employed to watch him and
that night after he had gone to sleep search
ed his clothes, when the watch was found
concealed in one of his shoes. The man
persists in declaring that he doesn't know
|
posed that some one threw him down and
put it in his shoe. >b
Friday night a new military company,
composed principally of boys Of good charac-
ter, was organized in Jacksonville under
the command of Lieut.. S. A.. Burkheim, of
the Metropolitan Light Infantry company,
under the name of the Jacksonville Light
Guards. The boys think that. inEa short
time they will be able to compete with any
company in the State. The officers elected
are as follows: Captain, Harry Hartley
First Lieutenant, Sam Cohen; Second
Lieutenant W. T. Smith; Sergeants, Albert
Bucky, Maurice Slayer, w. P. Simpson and
George Weldon; Corporals, Frank Jarboe,
Walter Watson, Gilbert Weldon and L.
Baldwin. After the command, "break
ranks" the boys retired to a room adjoining
their armory, where refreshments We're
served and heartily partaken of.
The well which was being bored for the
Ybor City Ice Company by Messrs. Mugge
q Jones was completed on Wednesday and
the pump connections made. 1t is $50 feet
deep and yields 100 gallons of water per
minute. The water is as clear as crystal
and pure as water could possibly be. 1t has
no taste of any mineral or vegetable matter,
and is pronounced by all who have inspect
ed it as the finest flow and best water in
South Florida. 1t is a six inch well and
has been bored through alternate layers OF
clay and rock from eighteen feet down
The casing was driven down forty-five feet
and stopped four feet in rock, which was SO
hard the casing could be driven no further
The Ybor City Ice Company start their ma
chinery Friday and the people can expect
pure crystal ice about next Tuesday or
Wednesday,
SOUTH CAROLINA